Better Pipe Organ Database

Henry Pilcher's Sons Opus 1313 (1927)

Bull Street Baptist Church
1400 Bull St.
Savannah, GA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
3 manuals
40 stops
40 registers
5 divisions
Key action Type: Electrical
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Has crescendo
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2005-04-06 - Identified through information from Volume VI p. 245 of the Pilcher factory ledger and list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager

2005-04-06 - Original price: $15,200 (E-Second Baptist corrected to Bull Street Bap.) -Database Manager

2015-12-29 - Tellers console added at some point; replaced in 1980 by 3/49 Moller Op. 11409. -Database Manager

2017-08-24 - Updated by John Lanier, who has heard or played the organ.<br> I visited this church a number of times prior to 1978. The interior of the church was renovated and enlarged in 1958. Apparently after this date the original Pilcher console was replaced with a Tellers console, but there was no date on the nameplate. This instrument was removed and the current Möller organ was installed in 1979. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the factory ledgerbook via the OHS Archives Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

 Savannah, Georgia
     Bull Street Baptist Church

     Pilcher   Op. 1313   1927   3/31
     _________________________________________________

     GREAT (*encl w/CH)            CHOIR

  8' 1st Open Diapason 73       8' English Diapason 73
  8' 2nd Open Diapason 73       8' Clarabella       73
  8' Gross Flute       73 *     8' Viol d'Orchestra 73
  8' Gamba             73 *     8' Dulciana         73
  8' Clarabella        CH *     4' Flute d'Amour    73
  8' Dulciana          CH *     2' Piccolo          --
  4' Octave            73 *     8' French Horn      73
  4' Flute d'Amour     CH *     8' Clarinet         73
  8' Tuba              73 *        Tremolo
     Tremolo                       Sub
     Sub                           Unison Off
     Unison Off                    Super
     Super                         Chimes           EC
     Chimes            EC          Harp Celesta     61

     SWELL                         ECHO (a)

 16' Bourdon           73       8' Cor de Nuit      61
  8' Horn Diapason     73       8' Vox Angelica     61
  8' Gedeckt           73       8' Unda Maris       61
  8' Salicional        73       4' Flute            --
  8' Vox Celeste       73       8' Vox Humana       61
  8' Aeoline           73          Tremolo
  4' Flute Harmonic    73          Cathedral Chimes 
  2' Flautina          --
III  Cornet           183          PEDAL
  8' Cornopean         73
  8' Oboe              73      16' Open Diapason    32
     Tremolo                   16' Bourdon          32
     Sub                       16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
     Unison Off                 8' Octave           12
     Super                      8' Flute            12
     Chimes            EC       8' Cello            GT
                               16' Tuba Profundo    12 GT

 (a) playable from Great and effected by its couplers

      [Received from Jeff Scofield December 30, 2015]

Documents

(2005-04-05) Pilcher Organs Summary of Pilcher Sources by Soosie Schmitt -Database Manager